The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-09-24
sunday Laws

Every icw years we havean cpid.
cmie of sunday law excitement.
some one ct our many ambitious
munidpahuo. arrive, at the couc.u.
sion th,, it i- given TO it by Al
mighty wisdom to show the world
how il 5. done; how the ordinary
natural laws may be seta-lde and
the avs OF men, fanatics and craub-.
may be- made TO surcrccdc them
AZ set There ha- been bat one out.
come for al. this. y stringent law
l- enforced for few sunday and
IL then GOO to Din the army of
Useless aud forgotten moral statutes
with which our law book of every
class aud kind arc crowded. Ten or
twelve year since we had this cpid-
cmic in Texas ia dread force, but 10
u short time J., went ont and was
forgotten so enc spcth- Of 1t now,
or no lca,. until Within % few week,
past. when il was revived with
al. OF it's original force. II is with
sunday observance ~ it H. with pro-
Aititiou. there g. N gooi citizen
but wishes to soc sunday observed.
There are 80 many reasons why
this should De that we deem
IL unnecessary 20 -tatc them, and yet
thorc s. NO one who would not rather
see tins Observance the result of per-
sobol conyir ion aud conclusion tnan
as the result of harsL and imperative
law making it "a matter only of I'M
willing obedience. Then it certainly |
follows that SUNDAY Observance, like |
Temperance, should bc matter of
education, - matter of usage aud the
effect otan enlightened pubic ,suu.
mcut which IT, the re-Llt only of pure |
consent aud not result of coercion
only. Ole mans ideas Of what il u
reasonable and proper ob-ervaDcc Of
sunday mny ditcr very widely from
those OF another and both be equally.
honest ami patriotic, not TO say moral
aud religious.
lti- % day Of rest tor most. That
is The grand idca NOW, we can nm
aginc no work halt - irksome aud
Mborlou- as enforced rc,t--it the bull
!. tolerated. Just how tu, rest is 10
be Obtained. just what viii suit every
man, woman and childno law-mak iug
force can determine. rhcn it follows
clearly that each is TO he law unto
himself in tins thing, and each Is to
render All account only 20 God and
his own conscience for his ways and
modes Of SUNDAY observance, so that
the general sense of the public be not
outraged. Christianity llouri,he-
best in those lands where it, festivals.
iea,t- aud sacrifice, are matters OF
common consent, and not the result of
har,h'y enforced law, \ policy the
.urthest removed from the Old New
England blue law cuactmeut.. seems
best.
Their, toe. we have this objection
laws, Ike prohibition
aws, are mdomocratic They
assume to step in and furnish morals
tor people, when pure democracy
teaches lhata free people are only re
'pousiblc to God for matters of opin-
on, of personal conduct. In the oXcr-
'i,e OF such right we are not permit
ted TO trench on the rights Of others
who do not think rs we DO. For
Instance The Methodist church be-
ieycs In strict observance of the
sabbath. a base BAH club or a beer
garden is not to build up under it.,
windows or where the noise would
annoy tic worshipusr-. Bat yet those
men who drink beer, or love b g,
bah, may iunoccutly indulge when
hey Clend no one else, or DO not in
'ade the rights of others in pursuit of
heir amusement Both base bali
'ud beer drinking may be attacked
~ any who cAC,es TO do 30, and all
moral forces my be- used to convince
men that both are wrong. To do
his most cnecl5cly, We must Use
'nIy moral forces Harsh measure.
you'd surely defeat the ends ia view,